Pakistan will be the first country in the world to introduce a one-dose vaccine, injected intramuscularly Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Although the government is making an “immense effort” and may well ...
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Persistent circulation of a fluoroquinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica Typhi clone in the Indian subcontinent
AUTHORS Carl D Britto, Zoe A Dyson, Sitarah Mathias, Ashish Bosco, Gordon Dougan, Sanju Jose, Savitha Nagaraj, Kathryn E Holt, Andrew J Pollard ABSTRACT Background: The molecular structure of circulating ...
Read moreWith 13,727 XDR typhoid cases reported, Sindh plans to reach 10.1m children
Following the emergence of 95 per cent of all the typhoid cases as XDR (Extensively Drug Resistant) Typhoid in Sindh, health officials in the province have decided to vaccinate around ...
Read moreWhy is drug-resistant typhoid becoming more common?
The largest public hospital for children in Sindh, the National Institute of Child Health in Karachi, has recorded 887 cases of typhoid this year Most presented with fever and test ...
Read moreImproved MALDI‐MS method for the highly sensitive and reproducible detection of biomarker peaks for the proteotyping of Salmonella serotypes
AUTHORS Fukuyama Y, Ojima-Kato T, Nagai S, Shima K, Funatsu S, Yamada Y, Tamura H, Nomura S, Ogata K, Sekiya S, Iwamoto S, Tanaka K ABSTRACT The rapid identification and ...
Read moreSimultaneous and high sensitive detection of Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi a in human clinical blood samples using an affordable and portable device
AUTHORS Avinash Kaur, Ankur Ruhela, Priyanka Sharma, Harshit Khariwal, Sagar Seth, Adarsh Kumar, Arti Kapil, Ravikrishnan Elangovan, Dinesh Kalyanasundaram ABSTRACT Enteric fever is one of the leading causes of infection ...
Read moreSoluble overexpression of a flagellin derivative from Salmonella enterica using synonymous codon substitutions of 5′-coding region in Escherichia coli
AUTHORS Dae-Eun Cheong, Jihye Lee, Hye-Ji Choi, Su-Kyoung Yoo, Dong-Hyun Lee, Geun-Joong Kim ABSTRACT Objective To obtain a recombinant flagellin derivative CBLB502, expressed in functionally soluble form, the technology of library ...
Read moreProteomics-based discrimination of differentially expressed proteins in antibiotic-sensitive and antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Staphylococcus aureus
AUTHORS Md Jalal Uddin, Choong Je Ma, Jin-Chul Kim, Juhee Ahn ABSTRACT This study was designed to compare the differentially expressed proteins between antibiotic-sensitive and antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium, Klebsiella pneumonia, and ...
Read moreThe Invisible Burden: Diagnosing and Combatting Typhoid Fever in Asia and Africa
AUTHORS Virginia E Pitzer, James Meiring, Frederick P Martineau, Conall H Watson, Gagandeep Kang, Buddha Basnyat, Stephen Baker ABSTRACT Measuring the burden of typhoid fever and developing effective strategies to ...
Read moreGovt to launch vaccination campaign against typhoid
Sindh Health Department officials and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have expressed concern over the increasing number of extensively-drug resistant (XDR) typhoid cases in the province The officials announced ...
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